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It is important, and sometimes difficult, to remember that Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was an actor, not an alien. As Mr. Spock, the elf-eared, half-Vulcan science officer and first mate of the Starship Enterprise, he created a role that turned him from a journeyman into a star. The role made a footnote of everything he'd done before and colored everything that came after. The titles of Nimoy's two memoirs — "I Am Not Spock" (1975) and "I Am Spock" (1995) — indicate a process of rejection and acceptance the part played in his life. And each is true: He was all the while his own person — it's interesting, even a...

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